Still my favorite FF. VII was my first FF and it was life changing VIII came out and somehow exceeded that. Some of Uematsu's best work. This is up there with my favorite games of all time. Please, SE, bring this to the current gen of consoles.
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Final Fantasy VIII 20th Anniversary
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I remember playing this at launch and while it wasn't my favorite FF it's also not nearly as bad as people made it out to be. The soundtrack is really good and probably underappreciated because of how divisive the mechanics were in the game itself.
Of all the PS1 era FF games I want to replay this is the one I most want to play again just because I want to revisit it and see it with a better understanding of where the franchise was at the time, where it's gone since, and just a better appreciation for ambitious but flawed games in general.
Of all the PS1 era FF games I want to replay this is the one I most want to play again just because I want to revisit it and see it with a better understanding of where the franchise was at the time, where it's gone since, and just a better appreciation for ambitious but flawed games in general.
I love this game so much. The naysayers will never convince me it is anything other than a stone-cold masterpiece.
It gets a lot of grief because of how broken the junction system was but back when I was a dumb kid with no internet I wasn't going for the lionheart on disc one, I was playing the story normally having a blast. And now I know how to 'break' the game I'm happy that's an option for me.
Great game. Part of the golden era of final fantasy.
Great game. Part of the golden era of final fantasy.
I am sorry but it had to be done.
You don't like this joke? Get them to do a remake then.
If anything, the issue is that a lot of people are borderline OCD. They felt compelled to draw 99 of each spell for each character.
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Thanks everyone!
Remember you can click a lot of banners and they will link to videos, music or art.
Also it's only 1am in JP but we riot if they say nothing today. We should hashtag whereisFFVIIIport?
Remember you can click a lot of banners and they will link to videos, music or art.
Also it's only 1am in JP but we riot if they say nothing today. We should hashtag whereisFFVIIIport?
Fuck light theme. Only dark theme ERA may view this thread.
okay thanks I'll fix it
Means 19 years since I played it. I got it on my birthday after release, so February 21, 2000.
This game is what got me into Final Fantasy and JRPGs as a whole. From that first CG scene to the last I was fucking hooked.
I tried getting into FF before this. My friend gave me FF6 once and another time FF7 to borrow. Couldn't get into them and got stuck on FF7 (I was a moron and didn't realize you could equip the cure materia). In any case I was actually excited for 8, since I saw the magazine scans in his room.
I've replayed it a few other times, more than most JRPGs and I think it still holds up pretty well. The music is amazing. Probably my number 1 from Uematsu, but it's a fight. I absolutely loved the battle system. The characters were great at the time. Yeah the story got a bit weird, but I loved the premise and the beats.
The Dollet mission at the beginning will never cease to be bonkers. Fuck I love this game.
Oh, and we had our pianist play Eyes on Me at my wedding. It was the centerpiece. And when we were walking out he started with the chords for the Final Fantasy victory tune before sequining into other songs (more traditional stuff and stuff by The Beatles, etc)
This game is what got me into Final Fantasy and JRPGs as a whole. From that first CG scene to the last I was fucking hooked.
I tried getting into FF before this. My friend gave me FF6 once and another time FF7 to borrow. Couldn't get into them and got stuck on FF7 (I was a moron and didn't realize you could equip the cure materia). In any case I was actually excited for 8, since I saw the magazine scans in his room.
I've replayed it a few other times, more than most JRPGs and I think it still holds up pretty well. The music is amazing. Probably my number 1 from Uematsu, but it's a fight. I absolutely loved the battle system. The characters were great at the time. Yeah the story got a bit weird, but I loved the premise and the beats.
The Dollet mission at the beginning will never cease to be bonkers. Fuck I love this game.
Oh, and we had our pianist play Eyes on Me at my wedding. It was the centerpiece. And when we were walking out he started with the chords for the Final Fantasy victory tune before sequining into other songs (more traditional stuff and stuff by The Beatles, etc)
First FF I've ever finished. Dont renember much of the story. But I do remember having a killer juction setup. And that I advanced through the story too far into disc 4. I never had a backup save. When I realized that, I decided to refine all my cards since theres no one left to play with the card game in disc 4. I never enjoyed or understood the card game anyway.
FF8 was the first Final Fantasy I was aware of the release of after becoming a fan of FF(meaning FF7 was my first FF, played it a year or so after its release).
So... 20th anniversary of me being a FF fan too I suppose.
So... 20th anniversary of me being a FF fan too I suppose.
Not my favorite FF but I loved it enough to purchase Triple Triad card sets and played it after school with my fellow lunchmate pariah.
What I always liked about FFVIII is the amount of character development and attention to little details. A lot of it is totally optional. For example you can learn more about some characters through the books they check out at the Balamb library.
I remember it and the graphical leaps in power we saw back then were insane and will never be matched. Then the PS2 would go on to destroy even that tech demo.
Fantastic thread Wazzy!
Easily my favourite game of all time. Love its world, its story, its characters, its music etc etc god I love it all so much. It's a crime that this game gets the hate that it does and that we're still waiting for it to be ported to current consoles.
Easily my favourite game of all time. Love its world, its story, its characters, its music etc etc god I love it all so much. It's a crime that this game gets the hate that it does and that we're still waiting for it to be ported to current consoles.
The greatest game ever made and one of the few games I can arguably say changed my life. I don't think I can quite put into words how important this was for me as a kid (it helped me learn how to read and write as a first grader and opened my eyes to a whole new level of magic and fantasy). I replay this almost once every single year. Fantastic game.
there's a charm to the hard polys. But there's this:"Aged the worst"
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Why won't square go back and remaster the backgrounds to 4K? Seems like it would be cheaper than a remake and make these games "usable" to the masses for a very long time.
My first FF, and probably the one I beat the most because of that.
I have not played this game since doing a VII-to-X run back in like 2003. Do hope they re-release it again, or I'll just capitalize on other re-releases and use that as a reason to get into it again. :p
I have not played this game since doing a VII-to-X run back in like 2003. Do hope they re-release it again, or I'll just capitalize on other re-releases and use that as a reason to get into it again. :p
Happy birthday ;)
I was about to give up on gaming, and you came into my life.
20 years later, it's my favorite medium.
I was about to give up on gaming, and you came into my life.
20 years later, it's my favorite medium.
FFVIII is a really good game. The junction system may be broken, but the story and setting is pretty unique.
Great graphics, interesting story and characters, and also outstanding music.
Great graphics, interesting story and characters, and also outstanding music.
And don't forget about The Black Mages "The Man with the Machine Gun"
Played it recently for the first time this christmas as I'm going through a good chunk of the franchise right now, and I thought it was absolutely dreadful, primarily because the story it's a disaster that makes no sense with no coherency whatsoever (both in universe and in terms of story structure) and the characters are annoying as all hell, almost without exception. Seifer has to be one of the worst written "rival character" ever made(if he even counts as that, the story doesn't know what the hell to do with him)
The soundtrack is fantastic though, my favorite among the ones I've been playing (from VI to X, right now I'm 10 hours deep into XII), so it has that going for it, at least.
The soundtrack is fantastic though, my favorite among the ones I've been playing (from VI to X, right now I'm 10 hours deep into XII), so it has that going for it, at least.
Triple Triad was the best mini game, but the random rule can go to hell.
I remember spending hours grinding for cards in Galbadian Garden for ingredients to summon Doomtrain.
I never played the game properly I used a cheat codes for infinite gil and infinite The End and apocalypse magic. Junction those and have max attack and HP. It was the only way I could get some of the GFS.
I remember spending hours grinding for cards in Galbadian Garden for ingredients to summon Doomtrain.
I never played the game properly I used a cheat codes for infinite gil and infinite The End and apocalypse magic. Junction those and have max attack and HP. It was the only way I could get some of the GFS.
Thank you for this amazing thread, FFVIII was an unforgettable experience, the game's masterful art is still amazing to this day.
People say FFVIII is too different from the classic FFs but in fact it had a lot of allusions and references to classic FF stuff, it just wasn't as overt and in-your-face as FFIX.
For example the metallic half-circle holding Edea's cape is based on Wrexsoul's own outfit from FFVI:
Zell looks like a younger version of Tetsuya Nomura's Sabin from FFVI:
The Ragnarok flying theme sounds like the unused flying ship theme from FFV:
The Mayor of Fishermans Horizon has small aircraft models that look like the Tiny Bronco from FFVII, the Blackjack from FFVI, the Lunar Whale from FFIV, and the Nautilus of FFIII.
And of course there's Gilgamesh from FFV, evil moon from FFIV, Hyne from FFIII, etc.
For example the metallic half-circle holding Edea's cape is based on Wrexsoul's own outfit from FFVI:
Zell looks like a younger version of Tetsuya Nomura's Sabin from FFVI:
The Ragnarok flying theme sounds like the unused flying ship theme from FFV:
The Mayor of Fishermans Horizon has small aircraft models that look like the Tiny Bronco from FFVII, the Blackjack from FFVI, the Lunar Whale from FFIV, and the Nautilus of FFIII.
And of course there's Gilgamesh from FFV, evil moon from FFIV, Hyne from FFIII, etc.
Cheers to FFVIII on the milestone!
I think I love every FF game from VI on aside from XIII (which I don't hate, but I certainly don't love), but VI and VIII probably tie for my favorite cast in the entire series.
I may have to revisit this game sometime this year on my Vita. I do hope that things turn around and it does eventually see rereleases in the same style as the FFVII and IX rereleases on mobile, PS4, and soon Switch and XB1!
I think I love every FF game from VI on aside from XIII (which I don't hate, but I certainly don't love), but VI and VIII probably tie for my favorite cast in the entire series.
I may have to revisit this game sometime this year on my Vita. I do hope that things turn around and it does eventually see rereleases in the same style as the FFVII and IX rereleases on mobile, PS4, and soon Switch and XB1!